can take a long time to get the injured to a hospital. fortunately if you can say that in this kind of a situation, there are local hospitals rather close by because columbia is a major city will in south carolina. rachel: deputies on the scene right now trying to help those off the train, trying to help those get to the hospital, those that need it. so, yeah, very, very tragic. and you are right. when these kinds of accidents happen in a more rural area, time is of the essence. ed: hearing there might be multiple go teams. i mentioned one before. sheriff s deputies in the area responding to the scene. i m noticing on social media a lot of people tweeting us that it s pronounced kay-see. we have more fox & friends right after this. wil
heard earlier. when harrison cahill, the state emergency management division, they didn t know whether there were no life threatening injuries. he said they would look into it. we do know of scrapes and broken bones. but when asked are you officially saying there are no life threatening injuries he? couldn t answer that. rachel: he can t answer that because if you are on blood thinners and you break your leg, that is life-threatening injury. todd: great point. rachel: that s something we thought about often. a small injury for somebody on medication could become very serious. listen, this happened at 2:35 in the morning, todd. they hit a diesel freight freezing rain. there are no seat belts on a train. people had to have been thrown from their seats and jolted in a very powerful way. ed: yeah. also officials saying they do not have info on speed. in terms of how fast either train was traveling either the passenger train or the
this week. train on train consequences can be deadly for presumably at this point people on board. rachel: again, happening at 2:30 in the morning. that means it s dark in the train. people are being jolted from their sleep, trying to find out what s going on. makes it harder when it s dark and cold outside. ed: now, we have got some numbers here and some details just to make sure to recap what we have been telling you. a statement coming in from amtrak. what they are saying is this amtrak train number 91. operating between new york and miami as we noted. came in contact with a csx freight train 2:35 a.m. iron time case, south carolina. the lead engine derailed according to amtrak as well as some passenger cars there were 8 crew members as we noted. approximately 139 passengers. they say there were injuries reported and local authorities are on the scene responding. more information will be provided as available. that is an official statement just coming in to our news room. i was on t
expected that i don t understand how people in the media, people who normally want to expose everything, people who want to make sure that the pentagon papers got published. people who have wanted to make sure that we knew everything about iran contra. people who wanted to make sure that we knew everything about every implication of watergate, and now they suddenly say nothing to see here, let s shut this down. we don t want to see that memo. i had one person respond to me on twitter, a reporter and said oh, yeah, we want to see it i m not seeing that. i m seeing many people sitting at their desk pounding their chest saying this is an affront to the constitution. the affront to the constitution is covering it up. ed: all right, the man who will be singing the hymn as little better in church this morning hike huckabee. [laughter] todd: church also be awesome. rachel: i love having him on. todd: the president heading to ohio tomorrow. what do voters in the buckeye state want to hear? why
with that we want to wring in ntsb chairman robert sumwalt. sir, what s the latest that you can tell us? good morning, and thank you for having us. we will be having our teams arriving in columbia early this morning, and we will begin immediately with our investigative process. ed: what are the early stages now? we had a news conference, sir, with local officials in south carolina last hour. and they were sailing it s too early to tell, which is understandable about how quickly the speed both trains were traveling at before this collision. and they were also saying it was too early to say why they collided. what s your early sense? you have been through this before. yes, indeed, we have been through this. and i suspect that we will have some preliminary information by this afternoon from a number of data sources to be able to pen down the speed of the amtrak train at the point of collision. that s our priority is to